(February 2, 2015 at 1:21 am)Riketto Wrote: You will have to excuse me mate but now that you have said that the brain can do without the I i don't really know what to do with this I.I said no such thing. I simply pointed out that the brain is never idle. Your wild fantasizing about consciousness or whatever it is that you are carrying on about doesn't change that fact.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould